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November 1: Samhain and Beltane in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, respectively; Rajyotsava (Formation Day) in Karnataka, India (1956)

Soldiers of the First Australian Imperial Force

1141 – After Empress Matilda released her rival King Stephen, he in turn released Robert of Gloucester, her strongest supporter, thus prolonging the Anglo-Norman civil war known as The Anarchy.
1897 – Juventus, Italy's most successful football club, was founded as an athletics club.
1914 – World War I: The first contingent of the First Australian Imperial Force (soldiers pictured) departed Albany, Western Australia.
1941 – American photographer Ansel Adams shot Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, one of his most famous photographs.
1956 – The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka were formally created under the States Reorganisation Act.

Józef Zajączek (b. 1752)
Stephen Crane (b. 1871)
Joan McCracken (d. 1961)

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November 2: All Souls' Day (Western Christianity); first day of Diwali in India (2021)

Police during the 2007 Georgian demonstrations

619 – Emperor Gaozu allowed the assassination of a khagan of the Western Turkic Khaganate by Eastern Turkic rivals, one of the earliest events in the Tang campaigns against the Western Turks.
1917 – The British government issued the Balfour Declaration in support of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small Jewish minority.
1963 – President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam was assassinated, marking the culmination of a coup d'état led by Dương Văn Minh.
1984 – The serial killer Velma Barfield became the first woman to be executed in the United States since 1962.
2007 – In Tbilisi, Georgia, tens of thousands of people demonstrated (police pictured) against the allegedly corrupt government of president Mikheil Saakashvili.

Bettisia Gozzadini (d. 1261)
Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (b. 1709)
Harriet Bosse (d. 1961)

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November 3: Kukur Tihar (Hinduism, 2021); Culture Day in Japan

Olympe de Gouges

1534 – The Parliament of England passed the first Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the Church of England, supplanting the pope and the Catholic Church.
1793 – French Revolution: Playwright, journalist and outspoken feminist Olympe de Gouges (pictured) was guillotined.
1898 – The Fashoda Incident ended with French forces withdrawing after several months of military stalemate with the British in Fashoda (now in South Sudan).
1954 – The first film featuring the giant monster known as Godzilla was released nationwide in Japan.
1996 – Abdullah Çatlı, a leader of the ultra-nationalist Grey Wolves, was killed in a car crash near Susurluk, Turkey, sparking a scandal that exposed the depth of the state's complicity in organized crime.

Petronilla de Meath (d. 1324)
Bangalore Nagarathnamma (b. 1878)
Ronald Barnes (d. 1997)

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November 4: National Unity and Armed Forces Day in Italy (1918)

Altare della Patria, Rome

1780 – In the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru, Túpac Amaru II led a rebellion of Aymara, Quechua, and mestizo peasants in protest against the Bourbon Reforms.
1890 – London's City and South London Railway, the first deep-level underground railway in the world, officially opened, running a distance of 3.2 mi (5.1 km) between the City of London and Stockwell.
1921 – The remains of an unknown soldier were buried with an eternal flame at the Altare della Patria (pictured) in Rome.
1944 – Second World War: Allied forces completed Operation Pheasant, a major operation to clear German troops from the province of North Brabant in the Netherlands.
2016 – The Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change came into effect.

Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (b. 1631)
Dolly Stark (b. 1897)
Tabu (b. 1971)

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November 5: Guy Fawkes Night in Great Britain and some Commonwealth countries (1605)

Meir Kahane

1138 – Lý Anh Tông was enthroned as Emperor of Đại Việt at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign.
1605 – The arrest of Guy Fawkes, found during a search of the Palace of Westminster, foiled the Gunpowder Plot, which planned to blow up the House of Lords.
1916 – An armed confrontation in Everett, Washington, between local authorities and members of the Industrial Workers of the World resulted in seven deaths.
1943 – World War II: An unknown aircraft dropped four bombs on Vatican City, which maintained neutrality during the war.
1990 – Ultra-Zionist rabbi Meir Kahane (pictured) was assassinated in a New York City hotel by an Arab gunman.

Louis Bertrand Castel (b. 1688)
Otto Wahle (b. 1879)
Habibollah Asgaroladi (d. 2013)

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November 6: Twin Holy Birthdays begin (Baháʼí Faith, 2021); Gustavus Adolphus Day in Estonia, Finland and Sweden (1632)

Red Cloud

1217 – King Henry III of England issued the Charter of the Forest, re-establishing the rights of access for free men to royal forests.
1868 – Red Cloud (pictured), a leader of the Oglala Lakota Native American tribe, signed the second Treaty of Fort Laramie, ending Red Cloud's War and establishing the Great Sioux Reservation.
1939 – As part of their plan to eradicate the Polish intellectual elite, the Gestapo arrested 184 professors, students and employees of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
1977 – The Kelly Barnes Dam in Stephens County, Georgia, collapsed; the resulting flood killed 39 people and caused US$2.8 million in damages.
2016 – Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces launched the Raqqa campaign, a successful military operation with the goal of isolating and eventually capturing the Islamic State's capital city, Raqqa.

Charles II of Spain (b. 1661)
John Philip Sousa (b. 1854)
Anthony Sawoniuk (d. 2005)

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November 7

Magic Johnson

680 – The Third Council of Constantinople convened to settle the Christological controversies of monoenergism and monothelitism.
1775 – Lord Dunmore, the royal governor of the Colony of Virginia, signed a proclamation promising freedom for the slaves of Patriots if they joined the British Armed Forces.
1941 – World War II: German aircraft sank the Soviet hospital ship Armenia while she was evacuating civilians and wounded soldiers from Crimea, killing an estimated 5,000 people.
1949 – Oil was discovered in the Caspian Sea off the coast of Azerbaijan, leading to the construction of Neft Daşları, the world's first offshore oil platform.
1991 – Professional basketball player Magic Johnson (pictured) announced his retirement from the game because of his infection with HIV.

Emanuele Luigi Galizia (b. 1830)
Lise Meitner (b. 1878)
Lorde (b. 1996)

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November 8: Constitution Day in the Dominican Republic (2021)

The San Jacinto (right) stopping the Trent

1278 – Trần Thánh Tông, the second emperor of Vietnam's Trần dynasty, took up the title of retired emperor, but continued to co-rule with his son Nhân Tông for eleven more years.
1861 – American Civil War: USS San Jacinto stopped RMS Trent (depicted) and arrested two Confederate envoys en route to Europe, sparking a major diplomatic crisis between the United Kingdom and the United States.
1940 – The Italian invasion of Greece failed as outnumbered Greek units repulsed the Italians at the Battle of Elaia–Kalamas.
1971 – English rock group Led Zeppelin released their fourth album, which became one of the best-selling albums worldwide.
2016 – The Government of India announced the demonetisation of certain banknotes, causing prolonged cash shortages in the weeks that followed and significant disruption throughout the economy.

Nyaungyan Min (b. 1555)
Arnold Bax (b. 1883)
Subroto Mukerjee (d. 1960)

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November 9:

Mary Jane Kelly

1729 – Great Britain, France and Spain signed the Treaty of Seville to end the Anglo-Spanish War, despite the underlying tensions being left unresolved.
1888 – Mary Jane Kelly (pictured) was murdered in London; she is widely believed to be the fifth and final victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper.
1918 – The government of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic adopted a tricolour national flag that remains in use today with slight modifications by the present-day Republic of Azerbaijan.
1967 – The first issue of Rolling Stone, an American magazine focusing on music, politics and popular culture, was published.
2019 – Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan inaugurated the Kartarpur Corridor, a visa-free border crossing connecting the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib to the Indian border.

Johannes Narssius (b. 1580)
Nadezhda Alliluyeva (d. 1932)
Markus Wolf (d. 2006)

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November 10: Noor Hossain Day in Bangladesh (1987)

Getúlio Vargas

1202 – Fourth Crusade: The Siege of Zara (present-day Zadar, Croatia), the first attack on a Catholic city by Catholic crusaders, began.
1865 – Henry Wirz, the Confederate superintendent of Andersonville Prison, was hanged after a controversial conviction, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.
1937 – Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas (pictured) led a coup against his own constitutional government, establishing the dictatorial Estado Novo regime.
1969 – The children's television series Sesame Street premiered in the United States.
2009 – Ships of the South Korean and North Korean navies skirmished off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea.

Isabel de Forz, 8th Countess of Devon (d. 1293)
Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu (b. 1887)
Ken Kesey (d. 2001)

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November 11: Armistice Day; Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth of Nations; Veterans Day in the United States

Signatories of the armistice ending World War I

1215 – The Fourth Lateran Council convened in Rome, during which the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation was defined.
1813 – War of 1812: A British–Canadian force repelled an American attack at the Battle of Crysler's Farm, forcing the United States to give up their attempt to capture Montreal.
1918 – The armistice between the German Empire and the Allies was signed in a railway carriage in the Forest of Compiègne of France (signatories pictured).
1965 – Rhodesia, led by Prime Minister Ian Smith, unilaterally declared independence from the United Kingdom.
1975 – During a constitutional crisis in Australia, Governor-General John Kerr dismissed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam's government and dissolved Parliament for a double-dissolution election.

Fyodor Dostoevsky (b. 1821)
Édouard Vuillard (b. 1868)
Francisco Blake Mora (d. 2011)

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November 12

William Heffelfinger

1330 – Led by the voivode Basarab I, Wallachian forces defeated the Hungarian army in an ambush at the Battle of Posada.
1892 – William Heffelfinger (pictured) was paid $500 by the Allegheny Athletic Association, becoming the first professional American football player.
1940 – World War II: Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov arrived in Berlin to discuss the possibility of the Soviet Union joining the Axis powers.
1991 – Indonesian forces opened fire on student demonstrators protesting the occupation of East Timor in the capital Dili, killing at least 250 people.
2011 – An explosion in the Shahid Modarres missile base led to the deaths of 17 members of the Revolutionary Guards, including Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, a key figure in Iran's missile program.

Zhang Jing (d. 1555)
Ben Travers (b. 1886)
Edward Soriano (b. 1946)

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November 13: Feast day of Saint John Chrysostom (Eastern Christianity)

James Braid

1642 – First English Civil War: Royalist forces engaged the much larger Parliamentarian army at the Battle of Turnham Green near Turnham Green, Middlesex.
1841 – Scottish surgeon James Braid (pictured) observed a demonstration of animal magnetism, which inspired him to study the subject he eventually called hypnotism.
1927 – The Holland Tunnel, connecting Manhattan with Jersey City under the Hudson River, opened.
1966 – The Israeli military conducted a large cross-border assault on the Jordanian-controlled West Bank village of Samu in response to a Fatah land mine incident.
2015 – Coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris perpetrated by the Islamic State killed 130 people and injured 413 others.

Dorothea Erxleben (b. 1715)
Moshe Pesach (d. 1955)
Paul-Émile Léger (d. 1991)

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November 14: World Diabetes Day; Dobruja Day in Romania

Eugene Burton Ely taking off from USS Birmingham

1680 – German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovered the Great Comet of 1680, the first comet to be discovered by telescope.
1910 – Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performed the first takeoff from a ship (pictured), flying from a makeshift deck on USS Birmingham in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
1941 – Second World War: After suffering torpedo damage the previous day, the British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sank as she was being towed to Gibraltar for repairs.
1965 – Vietnam War: The United States Army and the People's Army of Vietnam engaged at the Battle of Ia Drang.
1975 – With the signing of the Madrid Accords, Spain agreed to withdraw its presence from the territory of Spanish Sahara.

Xavier Bichat (b. 1771)
John Abercrombie (d. 1844)
Neil Heywood (d. 2011)

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November 15

Buran

565 – Justin II became Byzantine emperor, having allegedly been chosen by his uncle Justinian I as his successor on his deathbed.
1889 – Brazilian emperor Pedro II was overthrown in a coup led by Deodoro da Fonseca, while the country was proclaimed a republic.
1922 – Fountain of Time, in Chicago's Washington Park, was dedicated as a tribute to 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent.
1943 – The Holocaust: Heinrich Himmler ordered that Romanies were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".
1988 – The Soviet Buran spacecraft (pictured), a reusable vehicle built in response to NASA's Space Shuttle program, was launched, uncrewed, on its only flight.

Malo (d. 621)
Sara Josephine Baker (b. 1873)
Margaret Mead (d. 1978)

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November 16

Wei Jingsheng

534 – The second edition of the Code of Justinian, a codification of Roman law by Byzantine emperor Justinian I, was published.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units captured Fort Washington on Manhattan from the Patriots.
1938 – Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann first synthesized the psychedelic drug LSD in Basel, Switzerland.
1981 – About 30 million people watched the fictional couple Luke Spencer and Laura Webber marry on the television show General Hospital in the highest-rated hour in American soap opera history.
1997 – Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng (pictured) was released for "medical reasons" after spending seventeen and a half of the previous eighteen years in prison, and was deported to the United States.

Nasr of Granada (d. 1322)
Eleanor Coade (d. 1821)
Panditrao Agashe (d. 1986)

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November 17

14th Dalai Lama

1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: French forces defeated the Austrians at the Battle of Arcole in a manoeuvre to cut the latter's line of retreat.
1950 – The 14th Dalai Lama (pictured) assumed full temporal power as ruler of Tibet at the age of fifteen.
1968 – NBC controversially cut away from an American football game between the Oakland Raiders and New York Jets to broadcast Heidi, causing viewers in the Eastern United States to miss the game's dramatic ending.
2009 – Administrators at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit discovered that their servers had been hacked and thousands of emails and files on climate change had been stolen.

Nikephoros Melissenos (d. 1104)
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1818)
Petra Burka (b. 1946)

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November 18

Mark Twain in 1867

1210 – Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor, was excommunicated by Pope Innocent III after Otto commanded him to annul the Concordat of Worms.
1865 – "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was published, becoming the first great success of American author Mark Twain (pictured).
1956 – At the Polish embassy in Moscow, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev said "We will bury you" while addressing Western envoys, prompting them to leave the room.
1991 – Croatian War of Independence: The Yugoslav People's Army captured the Croatian city of Vukovar, ending an 87-day siege.
2014 – Two Palestinian men attacked the praying congregants of a synagogue in Jerusalem with axes, knives, and a gun, resulting in eight deaths, including the attackers themselves.

Thomas Burgess (b. 1756)
Dorothy Dix (b. 1861)
Tara Singh Hayer (d. 1998)

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November 19: International Men's Day; World Toilet Day; Liberation Day in Mali (1968)

Mayflower

1620 – The Mayflower (depicted), which brought the Pilgrims from England to the New World, sighted Cape Cod.
1941 – World War II: The Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney and the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran destroyed each other in the Indian Ocean.
1969 – Playing for Santos against Vasco da Gama in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian footballer Pelé scored his thousandth goal.
1991 – Mexican singer Luis Miguel released his album Romance, which led to the revival of interest in bolero music.
2004 – During a NBA game between the Indiana Pacers and the Detroit Pistons, a brawl between players spilled into the crowd when Ron Artest attacked a fan who had thrown a drink at him.

Mikhail Kalinin (b. 1875)
Xu Zhimo (d. 1931)
Ted Fujita (d. 1998)

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November 20: Transgender Day of Remembrance; National Sovereignty Day in Argentina (1845)

Bust of Diocletian

284 – Diocletian (bust pictured) became Roman emperor, eventually establishing reforms that ended the Crisis of the Third Century.
1739 – War of Jenkins' Ear: A British naval force arrived at the settlement of Portobello in the Spanish Main (now in Panama), which it captured the next day.
1902 – While discussing how to promote the newspaper L'Auto, sports journalist Géo Lefèvre came up with the idea of holding a cycling race that later became known as the Tour de France.
1979 – A group of armed insurgents attacked and took over the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, declaring that one of their leaders was the Mahdi, the prophesied redeemer of Islam.
1991 – First Nagorno-Karabakh War: An Azerbaijani military helicopter carrying a peacekeeping mission team was shot down in Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan, disrupting the ongoing peace talks.

Thomas Chatterton (b. 1752)
Irakli Tsereteli (b. 1881)
Ancel Keys (d. 2004)

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November 21: Armed Forces Day in Bangladesh

Alan Freed

1386 – Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur captured and sacked the Georgian capital Tbilisi and forced King Bagrat V to convert to Islam.
1894 – First Sino-Japanese War: After capturing the Chinese city of Port Arthur, the Japanese army began a massacre of the city's soldiers and civilians.
1959 – American disc jockey Alan Freed (pictured), who popularized the term rock and roll, was fired from WABC-AM for his role in the payola scandal.
1974 – Two pubs in central Birmingham, England, were bombed, killing 21 people and eventually leading to the imprisonment of six people who were later exonerated.
2009 – An explosion in a coal mine in Heilongjiang, China, killed 108 miners.

Bernardo Pasquini (d. 1710)
Joe Darling (b. 1870)
Michael Strahan (b. 1971)

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November 22: Feast day of Saint Cecilia

Blackbeard

1635 – Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launched a three-month pacification campaign against Taiwanese indigenous peoples.
1718 – The pirate Blackbeard (pictured) was killed in battle by a boarding party of British sailors off the coast of North Carolina.
1908 – The Congress of Manastir standardized the Albanian alphabet, a date still commemorated as Alphabet Day in Albania, Kosovo and North Macedonia.
1928 – Boléro, Maurice Ravel's most famous musical composition, made its debut at the Paris Opéra.
1971 – In Britain's worst mountaineering tragedy, the Cairngorm Plateau disaster, five teenage students and one of their leaders were found dead from exposure in the Scottish mountains.

Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres (b. 1721)
John Alsop (d. 1794)
Mick Shann (b. 1917)

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November 23: Labor Thanksgiving Day in Japan

William "Boss" Tweed

1867 – The Manchester Martyrs were hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while helping two Irish nationalists escape from police custody.
1876 – William "Boss" Tweed (pictured), a New York City politician who had been arrested for embezzlement, was handed over to US authorities after having escaped from prison and fled to Spain.
1963 – The first episode of Doctor Who, the world's longest-running science fiction television show, was broadcast on BBC television, starring William Hartnell as the first incarnation of the title role.
1980 – An earthquake struck the Irpinia region of Italy, killing at least 2,483 people, injuring more than 7,700 and leaving 250,000 homeless.
2007 – MS Explorer became the first cruise ship to sink in the Southern Ocean.

Jean-Baptiste Jourdan (d. 1833)
Anne Burns (b. 1915)
Yusof Ishak (d. 1970)

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November 24

A 1972 FBI composite drawing of D. B. Cooper

1542 – Anglo-Scottish Wars: England captured about 1,200 Scots with a victory at the Battle of Solway Moss.
1750 – Tarabai, the former regent of the Maratha Empire, had Rajaram II, whom she had previously claimed to be her grandson, arrested as an impostor.
1963 – During a live television broadcast, businessman Jack Ruby shot and fatally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald (shooting pictured), who assassinated U.S. president John F. Kennedy, fueling numerous conspiracy theories.
1971 – After collecting a ransom payout of $200,000, "D. B. Cooper" leaped out of the rear stairway of the airplane he had hijacked over the Pacific Northwest and disappeared.

Bagrat IV of Georgia (d. 1072)
Laurence Sterne (b. 1713)
Beth Phoenix (b. 1980)

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November 25: Evacuation Day in New York City (1783)

de Havilland Mosquitos

1759 – The second of two strong earthquakes struck the Levant and destroyed all the villages in the Beqaa Valley.
1795 – Stanisław II Augustus, the last king of Poland, was forced to abdicate after the Third Partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1940 – The de Havilland Mosquito (examples pictured), one of the most successful military aircraft in the Second World War, made its first flight.
1960 – Three of the four Mirabal sisters, who opposed the dictatorship of military strongman Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, were beaten and strangled to death.
1984 – Band Aid, a supergroup consisting of more than 30 leading British and Irish pop musicians, recorded the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.

Andrea Doria (d. 1560)
Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1876)
Alexis Wright (b. 1950)

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November 26: Feast day of Saint Sylvester Gozzolini (Catholicism); Constitution Day in India (1949); Thanksgiving in the United States (2020)

Explosion on HMS Bulwark

1842 – The University of Notre Dame was founded by Edward Sorin, of the Congregation of Holy Cross, as an all-male institution in the U.S. state of Indiana.
1914 – A large internal explosion (pictured) destroyed HMS Bulwark near Sheerness, killing 741 people on board.
1940 – The Iron Guard killed 64 political detainees at a penitentiary near Bucharest and followed up with several high-profile assassinations, including that of former Romanian prime minister Nicolae Iorga.
1977 – A speaker claiming to represent the "Intergalactic Association" interrupted a Southern Television broadcast in South East England.

Rudolph Koenig (b. 1832)
Sojourner Truth (d. 1883)
Galina Prozumenshchikova (b. 1948)

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November 27

Alfred Nobel

1161 – A Song dynasty fleet defeated Jin ships in a naval engagement on the Yangtze river during the Jin–Song Wars.
1815 – As specified by the Congress of Vienna, the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland was signed for the newly recreated Polish state that was under Russian control.
1895 – Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel (pictured) signed his last will and testament, setting aside the bulk of his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after his death.
1978 – San Francisco mayor George Moscone and openly gay supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated by supervisor Dan White.

Rachel Brooks Gleason (b. 1820)
Ada Lovelace (d. 1852)
Phillip Hughes (d. 2014)

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November 28: Bukovina Day in Romania

Frank Duryea, winner of the Chicago Times-Herald race

1470 – Đại Việt emperor Lê Thánh Tông launched a military expedition against Champa, beginning the Cham–Vietnamese War.
1895 – The Chicago Times-Herald race (winner pictured), the first automobile race in the U.S., was held in Chicago.
1903 – SS Petriana struck a reef near Point Nepean, leading to Australia's first major oil spill and a debate over the White Australia policy.
1966 – Michel Micombero abolished the Burundian monarchy and declared the country a republic with himself as president.

Manuel I Komnenos (b. 1118)
Matsuo Bashō (d. 1694)
Helen of Greece and Denmark (d. 1982)

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November 29: Liberation Day in Albania (1944)

Eureka Flag

1549 – After the death of Pope Paul III, a papal conclave was convened with an unprecedented number of cardinals, who eventually elected Julius III more than two months later.
1854 – An estimated crowd of more than 10,000 demonstrators swore allegiance to the Eureka Flag (pictured) as a symbol of defiance, in advance of the Eureka Rebellion in Ballarat, Australia.
1899 – FC Barcelona, one of the most successful clubs in Spanish football, was founded by Swiss football pioneer Joan Gamper.
1972 – Atari announced the release of Pong, one of the first video games to achieve widespread popularity in both the arcade and home-console markets.
1987 – A time bomb planted by North Korean agents on Korean Air Flight 858 detonated over the Andaman Sea, killing all 115 people on board.

Amos Bronson Alcott (b. 1799)
Artur Phleps (b. 1881)
Janet Smith (b. 1940)

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November 30: Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare; Saint Andrew's Day (Christianity); Guru Nanak Gurpurab (Sikhism, 2020)

WTO protestors in Seattle

1700 – Great Northern War: Swedish forces led by King Charles XII defeated the Russian army at the Battle of Narva.
1803 – An expedition led by Francisco Javier de Balmis departed A Coruña, Spain, with the aim of vaccinating millions in South America and Asia against smallpox.
1942 – World War II: Japanese warships defeated the U.S. Navy in a nighttime naval battle off Tassafaronga, Guadalcanal.
1962 – Following the death of Dag Hammarskjöld, Burmese diplomat U Thant was elected secretary-general of the United Nations.
1999 – Protests by anti-globalization activists (pictured) against the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference in Seattle forced the cancellation of its opening ceremonies.

William Gilbert (d. 1603)
Jagadish Chandra Bose (b. 1858)
Ahmadou Ahidjo (d. 1989)

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